Payment credentials turned AI agents from spectators into actors
VGS strategy chief Terry Angelos tells a16z's Alex Rampell that credentials give agents arms and legs, but open card-network standards must settle who is liable when agents err.
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Founders ditched 2 million monthly users because they disliked the product
Keith Peiris, CEO of Lightfield, talks with investors Joe Schmidt and Alex Rampell about pivoting from Tome, building a schemaless activity-log CRM, and pricing AI work.
Every payments challenger has lost to the card; agents may not
Affirm's Max Levchin and Alex Rampell trace 25 years in fintech, covering why payments innovation stalls, how Affirm found product market fit in mattresses, and why agentic payments beat agentic shopping.
Agentic card tokens went from zero to millions weekly
Terry Angelos, chief strategy officer of VGS, talks with Andreessen Horowitz's Alex Rampell about agents getting payment credentials, the wallet wars, and unresolved liability when an AI makes a purchase.